Candle Quote by Leo Tolstoy

“Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.”

Leo Tolstoy

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The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God.

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Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there's no forcing it.

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“If you only knew what those society women are, and women in general! My father is right. Selfish, vain, stupid, trivial in everything—that's what…

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To speak of it would be giving importance to that which has none.

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Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

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Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.

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“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.”

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Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.

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